2012 Challenges

150+ Reading Challenge

Read to date: 109/150

• Palladian - Elizabeth Taylor
• The Book Shop - Penelope Fitzgerald 
• The Elephant's Journey - Jose Saramago 
• Incidents in the Rue Laugier - Anita Brookner 
• Olivia and Jai - Rebecca Ryman 
• Reality and Dreams - Muriel Spark 
• The Ponder Heart - Eudora Welty 
• The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe 
• The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 
• The Making of a Saint - W. Somerset Maugham 
• No Fond Return of Love - Barbara Pym 
• Jane and Prudence - Barbara Pym 
• Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 
• Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
• The End of the Affair - Graham Greene 
• Symposium - Muriel Spark 
• This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
• The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
• The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt - Caroline Preston 
• The Forgotten Waltz - Anne Enright 
• The Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
• The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield 
• Leaving Home - Anita Brookner 
• Christmas Holiday - W. Somerset Maugham 
• The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham 
• A Sensible Life - Mary Wesley 
• Ulysses - James Joyce 
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
• Heat Wave - Penelope Lively
• The Wedding Group - Elizabeth Taylor
• At Lady Molly's - Anthony Powell
• Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
• The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell 
• The Children - Edith Wharton 
• The Reef - Edith Wharton 
• A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
• Penmarric - Susan Howatch 
• The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen 
• If I Were You - P. G. Wodehouse 
• The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton 
• Rules of Civility - Amor Towles 
• On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan 
• Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati 
• French Leave - Anna Gavalda 
• Providence - Anita Brookner 
• The Grass Harp - Truman Capote 
• The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell 
• The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell 
• The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell 
• The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim 
• Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West 
• Dawn on a Distant Shore - Sara Donati 
• The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway 
• Hemingway's Boat - Paul Hendrickson 
• Gillespie and I - Jane Harris 
• Delta Wedding - Eudora Welty 
• The Beekeeper's Pupil - Sara George 
• Summer - Edith Wharton 
• The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell 
• Charlotte Gray - Sebastian Faulks 
• Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 
• On Green Dolphin Street - Sebastian Faulks 
• Fools of Fortune - William Trevor 
• The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence 
• Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence 
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac 
• Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen 
• Atonement - Ian McEwan 
• Resistance - Anita Shreve 
• Ordinary Heroes - Scott Turow
• The Girl in the Blue Beret - Bobbie Ann Mason 
• The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje 
• Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 
• Every Day in the Sun - Dean Faulkner Wells 
• Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling 
• Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
• Sartoris - William Faulkner 
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner 
• Wild Decembers - Edna O'Brien 
• Old School - Tobias Wolff 
• Amsterdam - Ian McEwan 
• Deception - Philip Roth 
• Consequences of the Heart - Peter Cunningham 
• Elizabeth and Her German Garden - Elizabeth von ARnim 
• The Girl on the Boat - P. G. Wodehouse
• The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier 
• The Old Gray Homestead - Frances Parkinson Keyes 
• Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier 
• Snow Island - Katherine Towler 
• Flambards - K. M. Peyton 
• The Edge of the Cloud - K. M. Peyton 
• Flambards in Summer - K. M. Peyton 
• Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson 
• Ragnarok - A. S. Byatt 
• Girl With Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien  
• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
• Fair Stood The Wind For France - H. E. Bates 
• That Mad Ache - Francoise Sagan 
• Franny and Zooey - J. D. Salinger 
• Train Dreams - Denis Johnson 
• The Scapegoat - Daphne du Maurier 
• Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan 
• Fly Away Peter - David Malouf 
• Funny Farm - Jay Cronley 
• The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark 
• To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery

Tea and Books Reading Challenge

Level: Sencha Connoisseur (8 books)

Frances

Read to date: 4/8

• Ulysses - James Joyce
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
• Penmarric - Susan Howatch 
• Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati

Rose:

Read to date: 9

• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins  
• Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore 
• Perdido Street Station - China Mieville 
• A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
• A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
• A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin
• A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
• The Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber 

The Classics Reading Challenge

Level: Five (15 books)

Read to date: 28/15

•  Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
• Scoop - Evelyn Waugh 
• The End of the Affair - Graham Greene 
• This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
• The Beautiful and the Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
• The Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald 
• Christmas Holiday - W. Somerset Maugham 
• The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham 
• Ulysses - James Joyce 
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
• At Lady Molly's - Anthony Powell
• Casanova's Chinese Restaurant - Anthony Powell
• The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell 
• The Children - Edith Wharton 
• The Reef - Edith Wharton 
• A Passage to India - E. M. Forster 
• The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton 
• The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell 
• The Soldier's Art - Anthony Powell 
• The Military Philosophers - Anthony Powell 
• The Garden of Eden - Ernest Hemingway 
• Summer - Edith Wharton 
• The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence 
• Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence 
• Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
• Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence 
• Sartoris - William Faulkner
• The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

Books I Started but Didn't Finish

Read to date: 1

• Scoop - Evelyn Waugh

Contentment Reading Challenge

Level: Floating Level (5 books)

Read to date: 5/5

• Penmarric - Susan Howatch
• Into the Wilderness - Sara Donati 
• Dawn on a Distant Shore - Sara Donati 
• Summer - Edith Wharton 
• Frenchman's Creek - Daphne du Maurier

Death by Gaslight Reading Challenge

Level: The Merry Widow of Windy Nook ( 5 books)

Read to date: 3/5

• The Valley of Fear - Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 
• The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins

European Reading Challenge

Level: Five Star (5 books)
Read to date: 8/5

• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Lorna Doone - R. D. Blackmore
• Birth of the Kingdom - Jan Guillou
• Jean de Florette - Marcel Pagnol
• Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
• The Traveler - Antal Szerb
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
• Piccadilly Jim - P. G. Wodehouse

Nordic Reading Challenge

Read to date: 2

• Birth of the Kingdom - Jan Guillou 
• The Wonderful Adventures of Nils - Selma Lagerlöf

South Asian Reading Challenge

Read to date: 2

• Last Man in Tower - Aravind Adiga

• The Sly Company of People Who Care - Rahul Bhattacharya